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    Voltron Live Action Short: The End

    There are tons of fan-made trailers and retellings in live-action form of just about every TV show we loved as kids. Voltron is no exception. Now comes a live-action short with some pretty impressive production values for all the more we get to see, and...

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    Doctor Who’s Day #1: William Hartnell

    As you might have guessed by his Scrooge-like appearance, Doctor Who was by far not Hartnell's first acting job.

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    Good-Bye, Sarah Jane; R.I.P., Elisabeth Sladen

    I just read the most heartbreaking celebrity news. Elisabeth Sladen, radiant at age 63, has died of cancer. I haven’t been hit this hard by a celebrity death in quite some time. She was beautiful, confident, and had that kind of timeless grace that I...

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    Preview & Review – Wookiee the Chew: The House at Chew Corner (Audiobook) by James Hance

    Hance, along with co-writer Max Michaels, has reached deep into this great piñata full of geeky goodness and flung the best prizes around a landscape of cherished childhood daydreams.

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    George Takei Should Be Spider-Man

    There are no words that could adequately describe what you will see in this video. If you know who George Takei is, and you know who Spider-Man is, you’re probably already cracking up. Source: Fashionably Geek

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    ElfQuest Trailer: By the Biggest Geeks, for the Biggest Geeks

    ElfQuest was the first comic series I ever really got into. A friend in high school discovered a mutual interest in series fantasy and brought me the first volume to borrow. After devouring that and all of the subsequent volumes, I was a lifelong fan....

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    R.I.P., Michael Gough

    You probably know him best as Alfred, Bruce Wayne’s faithful butler and father figure in the Batman franchise that began with Tim Burton’s adaptation, starring Michael Keaton, and ended with the unspeakably bad Batman and Robin, helmed by Joel Schumacher. Gough, age 94, had one...

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    Life Imitates Art: Real-Life “Up” House

    I remember reading an article a while back about how plausible it would be for the house in Disney’s Up to actually be carried away by the balloons seen in the movie. Experts agreed that if attempted in the real world, it would likely work,...

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    Blog on Blog Action: justJENN recipes

    If you haven’t checked out this blog, do it immediately! Whether you bake, cook, or just love geeky stuff, you’ll find things there to make you drool. I think the first time I came across it was when one Twitter friend or another retweeted something...

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    Spoiler-Free Review: Paul (2011)

    Movie: Paul Written by: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kristin Wiig, Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman Opens in the US: March 18, 2011 I was fortunate enough to be in Glasgow for the UK premiere of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s...

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